"We go out again this fall in the same company. That's
luck, isn't it? We'll be married as soon as we get back to New York and
we won't have to be separated for a whole season, at least."
"Isn't it dear to think of, Jackie sweetheart? A whole season and then
another, and then all of them after that? Oh, dear, won't it be sweet?"
It was love's young dream for both of them.
"Hello, what's this?" exclaimed Orlando the Thousandth, pausing before a
placard which covered the lower limbs of his pictorial partner. "Ten
Thousand Dollars reward! Great Scott, Cora, wouldn't I like to catch
those fellows? Great, eh? But it's a desperate gang! The worst ever!"
Just then both became conscious of the fact that some one was
scrutinising them intently from behind. They turned and beheld Anderson
Crow, his badges glistening.
"How are you, officer?" said Jackie cheerily. Miss Marmaduke, in her
happiness, beamed a smile upon the austere man with the chin whiskers.
Anderson was past seventy, but that smile caused the intake of his
breath to almost lift him from the ground.
"First rate, thanks; how's yourself? Readin' the reward notice? Lemme
tell you something. There's goin' to be somethin' happen tarnation soon
that will astonish them fellers ef--" but here Anderson pulled up with a
jerk, realising that he was on the point of betraying a great secret.
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